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Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Join the festivitieson La Ronda Street, spot an iguana in the Galapagos Islands, or hunt for a bargain at the Otavalo market; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands Travel Guide:

Color maps and images throughout
Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, music, politics, landscapes, and wildlife
Over 46 local maps
Useful features - including Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), Ecuador Outdoors, and If You Like (activity guide)
Coverage of Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Otavalo, Banos, Montanita, Vilcabamba, Mindo, Canoa, Isla de la Plata, the Quilatoa Loop, Papallacta, Isla Santa Cruz, Isla San Salvador, and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands, our most comprehensive guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less traveled.

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Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Regis St Louis, Greg Benchwick, Michael Grosberg, and Tom Masters.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travelers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Lonely Planet; 9 edition (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
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What Happened to Lonely Planet?

ByDavid Weinreichon May 14, 2014

Format: Paperback

Easily the worst Lonely Planet I've ever used, and I've depended on the series for all my trips since 2001. They once had colorful, clear maps that clarified which parts of the city had key sights, and made getting around by public transport a breeze. By contrast, the maps in this book were confusing, monochromatic, didn't make recommended sites very easy to notice, cut off important destinations completely, and placed the crease right in the middle of the most important destinations repeatedly throughout the book. The descriptions of hotels were superficial, to the point it was obvious the author had never stayed there. There was meager information on history, politics, the current situation (including security). Hotel options for Quito were heavily weighted towards the rowdy and sterile Mariscal Sucre tourist zone (nicknamed "gringolandia" by the locals)--even though this was also supposed to be one of the most dangerous parts of town for tourists. However it appears that an increasing number of hotels have opened closer to Old Town in recent years. How about some more info on those? There needed to be more tips on how to use the public transport system. This book stuck to the basics, but it was tough to use, crowded, hard to get on and off, and station names were almost impossible to see. Lonely Planet's maps were not possible to read on a dark Metrobus packed with people, and I overshot my stop several times. I ended up doing a lot of asking around. The book also needed to make greater mention of how to protect yourself from rampant petty crime on public transport. Several of my family members got pick-pocketed. One had his bag slashed on a long distance bus from Quito to Riobamba, and his electronic devices stolen. We learned that he shouldn't have placed the bag under his seat, out of his watch. We also gradually learned not to take our wallets at all, and simply carry change in our pockets. We would have appreciated some helpful advice like that!!

I gave up on Lonely Planet halfway through the trip, switching to Moon's Quito guide. While it was designed for Quito, the basic info it had for the rest of Ecuador was still more useful than Lonely Planet's supposedly in depth info. The hotel descriptions were fuller, the place descriptions helped understand the sights, and the security information was invaluable. Finally, if you travel there, you should know that the Quito airport has moved way out of town, and the Lonely Planet's info for getting from the airport to town is therefore out of date.

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The most useless kindle book I've ever bought

ByLouise Wisechildon June 4, 2013

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

The information is too general and is full of what the author thinks is important instead of a careful city by city approach where attractions, food, lodging and contacts are grouped in a coherent way. Trying to find anything, even a hotel in Quito, let alone real information on indigenous ceremonies is impossible using the search function of the kindle. In addition the book has no index. It's the laziest Lonely Planet guide I've ever read. I won't be coming back for any more after this.

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A Nearly Useless Guide

ByD. Donaldsonon November 21, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I bought the kindle version of this guide, and I'm in Ecuador using it. This sets a standard for uselessness. The offline maps are unusable: cluttered, uninformative, and undersized and of poor quality. The Google Map feature is almost as bad. It seems to be impossible to save locations on the map to my locations, leaving the user with a clumsy process of doing so manually.

The text is minimal, the information about individual places, whether restaurants, museums, churches or whatever is glib and boilerplate.

When moving around a city, you want to be able to discover things that are near where you are, but (as an example), Quito, a large and complex city is dealt with as a monolithic entity. I'm staying in the north of the city, and finding a way to orient yourself, let alone learn how to get around the city (the only real advice: take a taxi) is impossible.

The table of contents is laughably minimal, and navigating around the book is hard to do.

A far, far better option is just to use Google and Trip Advisor, and save the money.

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So So

ByResearched.Bought.on May 8, 2013

Format: Paperback

I do like lonely planet and this was the first time I took the book along for the vacation.
Didn't quite like the eateries that we tried recommended by LP, wish they'd cater to all taste buds and add more updates - Some of the places didn't exist anymore or had moved. They could also do with an updates on the hostels - found some off hostel world and trip advisor that were fab and weren't even mentioned in LP.
All in all, we relied 50% on LP, 20% on the blogs and info found off the internet and 30% on the locals :)
P.S. Ecuador is a bite size country, spend 15 days or 50 and you would always find something new. Loved the country.
P.P.S. We also read Moon's handbook before we left for Ec and found it better in terms of above mentioned.

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lonely planet Ecuador guide

ByDEBORAH STEVENSon September 23, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

do not buy this if you are going to use the digital copy. It did not give good review of the hotels, did not give transport instructions or where to find bus stations, I was very disappointed in this book I will never buy a digital version again.

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Disappointing

ByRobert Readon April 19, 2014

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

In so far as I can find anything in this guide the content is up to the usual good Lonely Planet standard.
The difficulty is finding anything in the book. I naively thought that a digital version would be easier to navigate.
The Menu button on my Amazon Kindle brings up a list of options starting of course with "Shop in Kindle Store" through to "View Popular Highlights". The "Search This Book" option will brings up every occurrence of a word in the book.
If I want to find accommodation options for Quito, typing "Quito" gives 128 pages of hits. Typing "Quito places to stay" is slightly better, only 5 pages.
The maps are almost useless.
With time it is possible to build up a collection of highlights and notes, but this should not be essential for navigation.
Surely it is possible to create a better Kindle guide than this.

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Pretty decent

ByPhil Knighton February 16, 2014

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

The information is decent. It even includes some potentially useful appendices, such as commonly needed Spanish to English translations.

The book is essentially a listing of recommended attractions, with fairly detailed description of the place. These are useful, but I find reading blogs and places like trip advisor gets me just as much, and much more.

If you aren't internet savvy I would say this is a GREAT book, but the internet just has more up to date information.